Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Program Management

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Program Management

Advisors & Consulting Services
Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.
The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Program Management consultants lead clients through business transformations by implementing strategically important Mastercard assets and services to bring value and drive growth. They serve as the Center of Engagement across all stakeholders within Mastercard and the client’s organization.
Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience: https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/consulting-specializations-at-mastercard
Roles and Responsibilities
You will manage multiple projects within a portfolio, providing efficient and effective coordination of a complex range of activities by clearly defining project team and stakeholder roles and responsibilities that are aligned with the delivery of the expected benefits. Examples of projects can include PMO support of marketing execution activities, implementation of Loyalty platforms, managing card program launches and conversions on behalf of clients. You will ensure effective identification of risks and pro-active solutioning to mitigate risks and impact on timelines.
Client Impact
• Manage deliverable development and workstreams on multiple large, complex high-value projects across a range of industries, problem statements, and cultures including the implementation of core payments products, security solutions, loyalty platforms, marketing execution projects and card program launches and conversions.
• Utilize proven, accredited project and change management methodologies and techniques to help clients drive measurable value, example includes project management support of Key client marketing initiatives
• Define scope, timelines, and budget and perform cost, benefit, and risk analyses
• Report on issues, risks, progress, and timelines and summarize effectively, offering analysis, options, and credible solutions
• Manage working relationship with client managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner
Team Collaboration & Culture
• Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations
• Plan, organize, and structure own work and that of junior project team members to address client problems
• Lead team and external meetings, and lead or co-lead project management
• Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development, being a strong brand ambassador for Mastercard and Data & Services
• Grow from coaching to enable ownership of day-to-day project management across client projects, and mentor junior team members
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
• Experience developing and implementing solutions and measuring impact on clients' business
• Undergraduate degree with work experience in project management and change management methodologies and techniques in payments environment
• 4-6 years of Project Management experience with Agile/Scrum
• Exposure to financial institutions, payments, and/or consultancies
• Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders
• Logical, structured thinking
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable)
• Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs
Preferred qualifications
• Experience coaching junior consultants
• Have completed or interested in pursuing recognized professional accreditation, such as Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Knowledge of Project Management tools
• Exposure to payments and/or retail banking or merchants
• MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization (not required)
Salary Range : $101,000 - $162,000

Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.